Chapter 4
Getting to Know Microsoft Word
IN THIS CHAPTER
Introducing word processing
Understanding the various ways to view your documents onscreen
Navigating documents by mouse or keyboard
Tips for shortening your learning curve
According to the dictionary built into Word’s own Smart Lookup tool, a word processor is
… a program or machine for storing, manipulating, and formatting text entered from a keyboard and providing a printout.
We’ve come a long way from the days of typewriters, when ensuring that you had clean, error-free, good-looking documents took a great deal of time and labor (and a wee bit of luck).
The word processor changed all that. Using a word processor, you can go back and change anything you’ve typed at any time you like. You can save documents and reuse or modify them later. You can use dozens of different font faces, sizes, and weights (though you should probably limit yourself to no more than a handful per document). You can change the size of margins; add, resize, or modify pictures and drawings; and create multiple columns or tables (grids) in your documents ...
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